M/V attacked vicinity 10-38.1N 106-46.1E at 021930Z apr
South China Sea · HYDROPAC 681/10
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2010-04-18 00:01Z
This notice comes from the historical archive. Its archived status does not establish when or how the reported situation ended.
- Source and dates
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · NAVAREA XI 214/10 040255Z APR 10. Issued 2010-04-04 05:17Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:38Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 15:46Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- South China Sea. The parsed report position is 10.635, 106.768. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Current notices and reporting history in the South China Sea →
- issued
- 2010-04-04 05:17Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- NAVAREA XI 214/10 040255Z APR 10
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- South China Sea
- position
- 10.635, 106.768
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
SOUTH CHINA SEA. VIETNAM. PIRACY. 1. M/V ATTACKED VICINITY 10-38.1N 106-46.1E AT 021930Z APR. THREE PERSONS WITH KNIVES BOARDED BERTHED CHEMICAL TANKER AND TOOK AN OFFICER HOSTAGE AND STOLE SHIP'S PROPERTIES. CAUTION ADVISED. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 18 APR.
Reading this warning
- Piracy and armed robbery
- Attacks and attempted boardings of ships, and suspicious approaches by small craft.
- Position (degrees and minutes)
- How warnings write positions: degrees, a hyphen, then minutes, with N/S and E/W — 49-40.8N 003-43.8W.
- Date-time group (DTG)
- A compact UTC timestamp — day, hour and minute followed by Z — such as 201500Z for the 20th at 15:00 UTC.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
Collected reports in this area · piracy & armed robbery reports
6 within 180 nm since 2010 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now
Counts include repeat notices about the same situation. NGA archive coverage ends 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. The period between them is incomplete. An empty year is not evidence that no hazards occurred.
- Four robbers boarded anchored chemical tanker in vung tau anchorage (10-25N 107-05E)2020-04-21
- M/V reports act of piracy in 10-15.3N 107-01.0E at 261920Z sep2016-09-28
- M/V reports act of piracy vicinity 10-14.9N 107-03.1E at 161930Z sep2014-09-19
- Possible pirate activity in 10-42N 109-44E at 232000Z jan2011-01-25
- M/V attacked in 10-15.2N 107-04.5E at 111905Z jan2010-01-14
Month of issue in the collected archive
All available years combined. Uneven collection and repeat bulletins affect these counts; this chart does not measure the seasonality or probability of incidents.
Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm
- Dangerous wreck in 10-22.31N 107-46.96EWrecks · 61.9 nm
- Sunken wreck exists in 10-22.31N 107-46.96EWrecks · 61.9 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
0 piracy & armed robbery reports listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 16:16Z; source collection times vary.
Piracy
Vessels attacked or boarded, suspicious approaches, pirate action groups — Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Guinea, Malacca and Singapore Straits, South China Sea. All current piracy & armed robbery reports →
Not for navigation. This is a re-rendering of an official navigational warning for awareness; mariners must use official NAVAREA broadcasts and their national MSI service.